Photography Archive

  • This is a picture of the half moon from early in January 2009.     This was taken with a Canon 10D through a Takahashi FS102 refractor at prime focus.

    Half Moon

    Posted on January 23, 2009 | No Comments
    This is a picture of the half moon from early in January 2009.     This was taken with a Canon 10D through a Takahashi FS102 refractor at prime focus.

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  • There have been a lot of reports of the 5D's trouble with bright point lights.  I recently updated to the new firmware (version 1.0.7) and took some test shots with...

    5D Mark II Astrophotography Tests

    Posted on January 18, 2009 | 1 Comment
    There have been a lot of reports of the 5D's trouble with bright point lights.  I recently updated to the new firmware (version 1.0.7) and took some test shots with...

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  • I recently had some of my old astrophoto slides scanned with a Noritsu slide scanner so I can put them into permanent storage and finally move into 100% digital photography....

    New Scans of Old Astrophotos

    Posted on January 16, 2009 | No Comments
    I recently had some of my old astrophoto slides scanned with a Noritsu slide scanner so I can put them into permanent storage and finally move into 100% digital photography....

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  • It's been at least three years since I've done any astrophotograpy but last night I lugged out the equipment and shot a few frames. I only made it out as...

    M42 shot with a Canon 10D

    Posted on December 29, 2008 | 5 Comments
    It's been at least three years since I've done any astrophotograpy but last night I lugged out the equipment and shot a few frames. I only made it out as...

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  • I ended up at the Red Bull Air Race last weekend. The tickets were $25, but we just stood at the convention center for free and watched from high-up. These...

    Red Bull Air Race

    Posted on September 26, 2007 | No Comments
    I ended up at the Red Bull Air Race last weekend. The tickets were $25, but we just stood at the convention center for free and watched from high-up. These...

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  • My Gallery2 embed plugin for MovableType kind of sucked before. It dove right into the SQL database to grab information which makes it brittle if the schema changes. I've updated...

    New Gallery Integration

    Posted on June 1, 2007 | No Comments
    My Gallery2 embed plugin for MovableType kind of sucked before. It dove right into the SQL database to grab information which makes it brittle if the schema changes. I've updated...

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  • While playing around with the Aperture database I decided to try to make something useful. The result is an Automator workflow that looks for duplicate master image names.

    Finding Duplicate Images in Aperture

    Posted on April 8, 2006 | 2 Comments
    While playing around with the Aperture database I decided to try to make something useful. The result is an Automator workflow that looks for duplicate master image names.

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  • Most of the time we want more resolution in our images so they can be printed on bigger and bigger formats. However, for web publishing it's important to have quality...

    Aperture Downsampling Results

    Posted on April 4, 2006 | No Comments
    Most of the time we want more resolution in our images so they can be printed on bigger and bigger formats. However, for web publishing it's important to have quality...

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  • I've tried a couple Aperture folder hierarchies and this is the one that seems to work the best for me.

    My Aperture Folder Structure

    Posted on December 20, 2005 | No Comments
    I've tried a couple Aperture folder hierarchies and this is the one that seems to work the best for me.

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